Common Core implementation begins with asking the right questions!
While the Common Core couldn’t be clearer about what to teach, they never quite tackle how to teach. That’s what makes Inquiring into the Common Core such an essential resource. It offers teachers an inquiry-based professional development model for achieving greater understanding of the standards themselves, then determining best ways to realize desired outcomes.
How exactly does the model work? Teachers take charge of their own professional development by posing questions, or wonderings, to stimulate action and higher-level insight into the big ambitions of the Common Core. At the very same time, they engage in a parallel process of inquiry with their students in service of the very same goals. Assisting teachers along the ways, Inquiring into the Common Core provides
- tools to systematically study teaching effectiveness while adapting to new standards
- classroom-ready, student inquiry techniques and strategies to apply within Common Core’s framework
- real life inquiry-implementation examples from a high-need, high-poverty school
Ideal for both teams or individual teachers, there’s no better resource for laying the groundwork for successful and thought-provoking classroom actualization amid shifting times.
Table of Content
List of FiguresForeword by Ann Lieberman
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Common Core and Inquiry
What is the Common Core?
How did the Common Core Develop?
Why Is the Common Core Important?
How Is the Common Core Different from the Status Quo?
What Difference Will the Common Core Make to Teachers and Students?
How Can Teachers Learn More About the Common Core and Its Relationship to Their Practice?
How Can Teachers Actualize the Common Core in their Daily Approach to Teaching?
Where Can I Learn More About the Common Core?
2. Teacher Inquiry: The Basics
What is Inquiry?
Components of the Inquiry Process
Where Can I Learn More About Inquiry?
3. Teacher Inquiry Into the Common Core: The Story of Lareal
Finding a Wondering and Developing an Inquiry Plan
The Start of Lareal’s Inquiry
Collaborating with the Reading Coach
Continuing the Inquiry Journey
Summative Data Analysis and Sharing with Woodson Faculty
4. Student Inquiry: The Basics
What is Student Inquiry?
What Is the Relationship Between Student Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards?
How is Teaching as Inquiry Different from the Status Quo?
What Does Teaching as Inquiry Look Like in Practice?
What’s the General Structure for Student Inquiry?
Where Can I Learn More About Student Inquiry?
5. Student Inquiry and the Common Core: The Story of Mary
First Things First: Creating a Culture of Inquiry
Starting Small: An Inquiry-Based Lesson
Expanding Horizons: An Inquiry-Based Unit
6. Making the Common Core Come Alive Through Inquiry: Lessons Learned
Lessons About Teacher Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards
Lessons About Student Inquiry and the Common Core State Standards
The Most Important Lesson
References
Index
About the author
Rachel Wolkenhauer currently serves as Teacher in Residence for the Lastinger Center for Learning in the College of Education at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She began her career as a third and fourth grade teacher and became an avid teacher researcher. In her role as Teacher in Residence for the Lastinger Center, she develops and facilitates inquiry-oriented professional development for pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and school administrators. Her work emphasizes practitioner inquiry as a mechanism for teacher leadership and as a pedagogical approach that encourages highly engaged teaching and learning.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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